hierarchy

hierarchy:

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Hierarchy

An arrangement or system of ranking one above the other or arranged in a graded series or sequence such as size (large to small), shape (similar or dissimilar), and placement (emphasis or location).

Hierarchy

the ordering of parts or elements of a whole from the highest to the lowest.

The term “hierarchy” was introduced not earlier than the second half of the fifth century by Pseudo-Dionysius in his treatises The Celestial Hierarchy and The Ecclesiastical Hierarchy. Until the 19th century, it was used to describe the organization of the Christian church. The development of the conception of hierarchy in science began in the second half of the 19th century. In the social sciences, the conception of hierarchy was originally used to describe class-estate divisions in an antagonistic society (for example, feudal hierarchy) and to characterize the structure of authority, especially of bureaucracy. In contemporary bourgeois sociology, numerous research studies have been devoted to the hierarchy of prestige, the hierarchy of wealth, and the hierarchy of power and control as an expression of social stratification and of social inequality.

With the appearance of the general systems theory in the 20th century, the conception of hierarchy was applied to describe any system objects. Hierarchically organized forms exist in all spheres of objective reality: inorganic, biological, and social. In Marxist philosophy, the idea of the hierarchy of qualitatively irreducible structural levels of matter has been developed. In general organizational theory, hierarchy is seen as the principle of control that secures the effective functioning of the organization. The hierarchy of levels (tiers) of a language is distinguished in linguistics. In graph theory the hierarchically constructed graph (the so-called tree) is used.

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hierarchy

1.Religion a body of persons in holy orders organized into graded ranks

2.Taxonomy a series of ordered groupings within a system, such as the arrangement of plants and animals into classes, orders, families, etc.

3.LinguisticsMaths a formal structure, usually represented by a diagram of connected nodes, with a single uppermost element

4. government by an organized priesthood

hierarchy

An organisation with few things, or one thing, at the top and
with several things below each other thing. An inverted tree
structure. Examples in computing include a directory
hierarchy where each directory may contain files or other
directories; a hierarchical network (see hierarchical routing), a class hierarchy in object-oriented programming.

hierarchy

A structure that has a predetermined ordering from high to low. For example, all files and folders on the hard disk are organized in a hierarchy (see Win Folder organization).

increased performance monitoring costs, increased pay and benefits for individuals who are promoted and greater complexity due to the increased heirarchical structure required to support promotions) should be judged in relation to the benefits possible for increased job satisfaction and reduced turnover intentions.

Rather than relying on the brute number-crunching force of the old heirarchical computer architectures that used a single large processor, neural networks use many processors operating in a fluid, parallel networking mode that simulates the network of cells forming the human brain.

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